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University Recruiter

PerplexityPeople & HRPeople
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On-site
Experience
4+ yrs
Mid

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What you need

  • 4+ yrs full-cycle recruiting experience
  • University, campus, intern or early-career hiring
  • Willingness to travel up to 25%
  • Strong organizational mindset for high-volume, high-pressure role

What you'll do

  • Own full-cycle early career recruiting from sourcing to closing
  • Partner with leaders on workforce planning, hiring strategy, evaluation
  • Plan campus programming: talks, hackathons, interviews, VIP events
  • Build talent brand and uncover hidden superstar talent

Each year, Perplexity hires an exceptional cohort of early career talent to join our technical team. We’re looking for a University Recruiter to architect our early career programs and shape our strategy for attracting and evaluating the world’s most elite early-career talent.


This is a full-stack role where you’ll be responsible for all aspects of campus lifecycle recruiting: building relationships with external organizations, driving partnerships with internal stakeholders, and running full-cycle recruiting for all candidates. You’ll enjoy incredible latitude to design our programs and candidate experiences end-to-end, along with high-taste playbooks for how we bring the best and brightest to Perplexity.


What You’ll Do

  • Own full-cycle recruiting process for all early career candidates from sourcing to closing.

  • Partner closely with leaders at Perplexity on workforce planning, hiring strategy, and candidate evaluation.

  • Build and scale a strategy that goes far beyond the usual playbooks. Explore creative, unconventional ways to build a talent brand and foster relationships that help uncover hidden superstar talent.

  • Plan and execute campus programming including but not limited to technical talks, coding competitions and hackathons, on-campus interviews, and VIP events.

What You Bring

  • 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience owning university, campus, intern or early-career hiring.

  • Strong organizational mindset–this role is high volume and pressure, juggling multiple workstreams and candidates that you’ll have to manage.

  • Willingness to travel up to 25%, concentrated during fall and spring recruiting seasons.

Nice to Have

  • Existing relationships with top CS, ML and engineering programs, research labs or competitive programming communities (ICPC, USACO, etc.).

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About Perplexity

Perplexity is building the most powerful answer engine — powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. Their AI-powered search platform provides accurate, cited answers to complex questions.

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